Device for cutting spaghetti.



D. PICIULO.

DEVICE FOR CEJTTING SPAGHETTI. APPLICATION FILED APR.I4,1915.I

Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

A ORIIVEV DONATO PICIULO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE Eon CUTTING SPAGHETTI.

Specification of Lett'ersPatent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

Application filed April 14, 1915. Serial 190,213.28.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DONATO PICIULO, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of the Bronx, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cutting Spaghetti, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for cutting spaghetti and has for its object a construction for mechanically cutting the spaghetti strands through the medium of a simple and convenient household implement to be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 represents a plan view of my construction.

Fig. 2 represents a section taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents a cross-section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1. l

Fig. 4 represents a detail of the adjusting means provided in my construction, the same being taken on line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail of one end of the crossrod of my construction taken on line 5'5 of Fig. 2.

In the description following, like reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures.

My construction. comprises a frame having a pair of parallel bars 1-1 and a pair of parallel beams 22 intermediate of the ends of said parallel bars. These beams 22 are preferably secured between and at right angles to the parallel bars 11 by means of vertical mortises in said bars, indicated at 33, out on the ,inner vertical sides of each of said parallel bars 11 intermediate their respective ends, such mortises preferably extending downwardly only part-way of the vertical inner sides of said bars, as shown at 11 (Fig. 3). In this manner the said earns, which may be dove-tailed, are securely connected to and held by the parallel bars 1--1, without any liability to trans-' verse displacement, due to the strain to which they are subjected by reason of the pressure exerted thereon by the strands hereinafter described. In addition, screws 55 extending from the outer sides of the parallel bars 11 and entering the ends of the parallel beams are employed, in order more rigidly to unite the beams and the parallel bars. As shown in my drawings, each of the parallel bars 1-1 extends some distance beyond its intersection with said beams 22, the extensions being indicated at 6 6 and 7-7 of my drawings, and these extensions 6-6 and 77 are provided to support, near each of the two ends of the frame, the crossrods 8 and 9. These cross-rods 8 and 9 are preferably made of metal and their respective ends inserted in oppositely located mortises 8 and 9? cut in the extensions 6'-6 and 77, respectively. These mortises are preferably covered by metal plates 10 and 11, said plates having slots 12 and 13, respec tively, to receive the ends of said crossrods- 8 and 9, respectively.

The cross-rod 8 is rigidly maintained against movement in the slots 12 of the plates 10 but, for the purpose of adjusting the tension of the strands hereinafter described, the cross-rod 9, on the contrary, is mounted movably in tlie oppositely located slots 13, which receive the ends of said crossrod 9, said slots being elongated, as shown at 14, to permit of the necessary extent of transverse'movement of'the ends of the rod 9'therein. Each of theends of the projections 7-7 is mortised in a longitudinal direction, as indicated at 15,'for the reception of the screw studs 16, the ends of said screw studs projecting outwardly through said mortises 15. The inner end of these screw studs 16 is connected to the rod 9 by means, for instance, of an integrally formed block 17 having eyes into which the ends of the cross-rod 9 are adapted to fit. Each outwardly threaded end of the projecting screw studs 16 is provided with a screw nut 18 engaging the thread of said studs 16.

Starting from one of said cross rods, for example cross-rod 9, a wire strand 19 (the end of which is made fast upon said crossrod 9 as indicated at 20) is passed therefrom over the beams 22, and to and around the cross-rod 8, and thence passed back over the beams 22 and back to the cross-rod 9, and so forth in like manner until the end of the wire is reached, said end then being secured to the cross-rod 9, as indicated at 20 or in any other suitable manner. The said strands 19 are equally spaced apart throughout the extent of their active surface, namely betweenthe beams 22, and are so maintained equidistant by means of saddles 2121 secured to the upper surface of each of the beams 22, said saddles having equidistant grooves 2222 in ,which the strands 19 are seated.

When it is desired to increase the tension of the strands 19 the turning oft-he nuts 18 will move the screw studs 16 and the crossrod 9 outwardly along the slots 13 of the plates 11. hen my device is not in use,

the tension upon the strands 19 may be revWill drop into any appropriate vessel beneathsaid strands.

It .will be noted, from the foregoing .de

.scription, thatl haveprovided a simple and eli'icient device for the -formation of spaghetti and one which is capable of instant mechanical adjustment ofthe tautness of the cutting strands and one avherein the tautness or the slack in the said strands may be regulated to thefinestdegree.

The parallelbars and the beams and the saddles for said beams are preferably made of Woodalthough, ii": vdesired, they may be formed of any other suitable material. Wood s the preferred material employed because it is cheaper and more easily Worked and is much lighter than would be a motallic structure.

'i Vhile I have shown my invention in one of many forms in which the same may be utilized, I desire it to be understood that the same maybe practised in a variety of modi fied constructions Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Whatl claim-and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A device for cutting spaghetti comprising a irame having a pair of longitudinally c. tending parallel bars; apair of intersecting beams rigidly connected to said bars; oppo sitely located mcrtises provided near the respective ends of said parallel bars; cross rods extending betweenthe parallel bar-sand into said oppositely locatedinortises, one oi said cross rods being adapted to slide in its .mortises transversely of said parallel bars; a screw and nut mechanism carried by said parallel. bars and connected 7 to said sliding; cross rod for sliding the crossrod train versely of said parallel'bars; a continuous Wire strandsccured uponsaid crossrods and passingaround said cross rods and back and forth from one to the other thereof, said strand bein sua'iorted ,uaon the )arallel cross beams.

.In testimony Wl161'QOf,,:I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of April,,19l5.

DONATO PICIULO.

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